LEAH RANSBURG ART GALLERY ROBERT JAMES FOOSE Jan. 14 through Jan. 31 Award winning watercolor specialist ROSEMARY BECK Feb. 11 through Feb. 28 Winner of top regional awards STUDENT ANNUAL EXHIBITION Mar. 11 through Mar. 28 Reception March 10 at the gallery INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION April 22 through May 19 Work from Art Department fleximester GALLERY HOURS M-F 1O:OO A.M.-4:00 P.M. Sunday 1:OO-4 :00 P.M. 2 Alumni News Winter 1974 Vol. 25, No. 2 Wilma J. Kyriaris '63, Editor President Delmer Huppert '31, Indianapolis Vice President Michelle S. Branch '66, indianapolir Secretary-Treasurer Gloria Hilfiker '57, Indianapolis Past President Gene Lausch '60, Indianapolis BOARD OF DIRECTORS Term ending 1974: Michael W. Bertram '67, Haubstadt, Indiana Arville 1. Funk '55, Corydon, indiana Kathryn Kwnig '45, Mt. Vernon, Indiana Mickie G. Shircliff '61, Indianapolis Everett W. Swank '37, Greenwood, Indiana Term ending 1975: Mary Kay C. Anthony '65, Greenwood. Indiana Gordon Geiger *47, Indianapolis Regular Features Gloria C. Hilfiker '57, Indianapolis Donoid D. Klinger '54, Indianapolis Clare J. Stone '44, indianapolir Term ending 1976: Reflections _________ ~ ................................................. ___________ 5 Effie 8. Brown '54, Indianapolis Richard K. Elmore '66, Indianapolis Marvin L. Henricks Lloyd E. Hiatt *40, Indianapolis Glen Todd '54, Greenfield, Indiana Campus News .________~ _______~ _____ _______ __ _____________~ __________________ 8 Amy B. Zent '58, Indianapolis Term ending 1977: William Kiesel '63, indianapolis Mary W. Merryman '30, Indianapolis .. Donna S. Mullen '70, Greenwood, Indiana Admissions Perspective _..._____,____________.~ _._______._~ ____________ 15 William Rider '47, Lombard, Illinois Henry Taylor '59, indianapolis ICC Personals __________________._~.....~.~.~..___.__.._______________________16 ALUMNI TRUSTEES To 1974: Ralph Coddington '43, Indianapolis Notes from Development ........_______~ ________......_.______________ 23 To 1975: Sherman Cravens '42, Evanston, illinois To 1975: John J. Mullen '48, indianapolis To 1977: Clayton Kinkade '50, Indianapolis To 1977: Geraldine C. McBride '57, lndianapollr James 1. Brunnemer '66 Director of Alumni Relations Wilma J. Kyriazis '63 On the Cover Assistant Director of Publications Photography: Indiana Central News Bureau A jubilant Bill Bless is hoisted atop the shoulders of two IC football players after a Member, American Alumni Council 34-32 win over Franklin College. The Grey- Published in September, January, March and July hounds, under the leadership of Coach Bless, by Indiana Central College 1400 East Hanna Avenue achieved the best record since the de Indianapolis, indiana 46227 teated 1953 team. See "Fall Sports Finale" Second class postage paid at lndianapolir, Indiana. on page 19. Printed in U.S.A. 3 Promc Tradition and transition are words which represent two facts of life with which we constantly live. Except for two letters they are identical, but their meanings are vastly different-often anti- thetical. Traditions are valued, respected and honored acts from the out of the past. Sentiment, nostalgia and emotion bind many tradi- tions close to our heart. We think of and speak about the time- honored and meaningful events of the past which still stir and stimulate our affections. Traditions may be built around events, activities, songs, organizations and expressions of meaning- President’s ful personal events of yesteryear. Transition, on the other hand, is the bridge which links the past with the future. It is often marked by the forsaking of tra- ditions and the revision of former patterns. Proven patterns of the past dare not be recklessly abandoned for an untried and risky Desk future course, but neither should the past be so strongly worshiped and tenaciously held that future goals are jeopardized. Recent days and years have been transitional for Indiana Central College. Each future day will hold additional changes. Transition is the process of blending the best of each yesterday with the hope of each tomorrow. Change and the ability to adjust to new ideas, modern methods, and expanded opportunities is essential if education is to adequately fulfill its important role. We pray for Indiana Central a full measure of wisdom that we may safeguard and hold precious those traditions which are significant to the preparation for living in the last quarter of the 20th Century-then to have the courage to boldly move forward into the opportunities of the 21st Century with dynamic programs. If it appears that your alma matter is in a state of transition, do not regard this as unusual, unexpected or threatening. This is what education is all about-it is a process by which we move from where we are to where we should be! 4 Ref Iect io n s by Marvin L. Henricks ’39 It is thirty-eight years since I first came to Indiana Central, and I wasn’t sure that I would stay the year. I could have attended the huge University of Minnesota in my home town, but no one bothered to tell me. It was a youth leader of the old United Brethren Church who suggested college and said to me, “Obstacles don’t stop great men; they only challenge them.” I guess I was ready to believe sayings like that in those days, and I didn’t know that I wasn’t a great man. I came with about a hundred dollars as the total resources for my college ex- penses and, when I leave, I hope I will have broken about even. My longlasting impression and my gratitude to the college centers about the idea that Indiana Cenetral made a college experience possible for students for whom the experience seemed impossible. A college like this depends heavily on the personality of its leadership. My recollections, like those of others who have been associated with the college over a period of years, center about the two long-time presidents. Their personalities shaped the college. President I. J. Good was a kind, personable man who had a great interest in young people. He was a man of great courage who faced tremendous financial difficulties, and most of all, he was a very religious man, dogmatic and puritanical, who believed in a pious life both for himself and for all who were associated with his college. Dr. Good impressed upon us the kind of life that he and God expected of us. I suppose it was as much of a sin for me to foul up the back seat of the college Buick with cigar smoke, while we were returning from a quartet trip, as it is now for students to experiment with pot. President Good brought the idea of literary societies with him when he came to Indiana Central as a transfer student from Otterbein. These societies dominated the social life of the campus in the twenties and thirties. The societies were organized around parliamentary procedure and public speaking. I belonged to Zetagathea, and we looked down our noses at the fellows in the older, more prestigious Philomusea whom we would have called “establishment” if we had known the word. There must have been seventy or eighty men who belonged to the two societies in their greatest days, and an equal number of women were members of Theacallosia and Philalethia. The literary banquet held at “Whispering Winds” or “Hollyhock Hill’ was the event of the year. (Continued on p. 14) COLIN JACKSON: Colin Jackson is a he ought to be around the country with a voice loud former member of and clear and clarion strong. Because in every democracy, the British Parlia- although we all play our own part, we need a bit of stimulus. You know somebody will have a parent or ment who been has grandparent who hated Roosevelt. Of course Roosevelt coming to Indiana was one of the great heros of the British people. But Central College to when you remember that man at the time of the de- speak every year pression, when you see the old shaky films of his in- f o r several years. augeration and that magnificent voice saying that the He is a member of “American people have nothing to fear but fear itself,” the Labor Party and you could almost imagine people picking themselves up. was a member of Parliament between United States, you’re in not as bad a mood as I thought you might be, but nevertheless you do need 1964 and 1970. He somebody who says, “Come on, we’ll do what we can will likely be a can- with prices,” or “Let’s not pick up our marbles and didate in the next go home because we don’t get everything our own way. election. At the pre- Lets think about the people next door in Asia.” And sent time he is writ- this you’re not getting. The poor man is obsessed with ing a syndicated column which appears in newspapers this very complicated matter. And I think a great warn- in the United States and other countries. In addition ing is, “Don’t cut yourself off from the people in a he is traveling throughout the world to speak on the democracy.” subject of international politics. On September 28, he As you know, politicians come lowest on the list spoke to the IC student body for the 18th year, by his of what you people think of people. I see they’ve just recollection, during the convocation period. Later in gone down below used car salesmen. But in a way, the the day, he conducted a question and answer session people have only themselves to blame, because if you with Dr. James Riggs’ class in International Politics say, “Politics is a dirty business,” you’ll drive all the from which these questions and condensed answers clean ones out. Clean people don’t want to be in dirty were taken.